CNBC Europe
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CNBC Europe is a business and financial news channel broadcast in Europe. It is the European version of Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC). It is operated by NBC Universal, and headquartered in London, England.
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Business Day
CNBC Europe produces live business day programming from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. CET, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Broadcast live from London, the major business day programmes on CNBC Europe are:
| CET | GMT | Program | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6am-7am | 5am-6am | Today's Business | Steve Sedgwick |
| 7am-10am | 6am-9am | Squawk Box Europe | Geoff Cutmore, Louisa Bojesen, Guy Johnson |
| 10am-12pm | 9am-11am | Worldwide Exchange | Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Ross Westgate, Christine Tan |
| 12pm-1pm | 11am-12pm | Power Lunch Europe | Louisa Bojesen (Mon, Tue), Patricia Szarvas (Wed - Fri) |
| 5pm-7pm | 4pm-6pm | European Closing Bell | Simon Hobbs |
| 8pm-8:30pm | 7pm-7:30pm | Europe Tonight | Simon Hobbs, Silvia Wadhwa |
Other business day presenters and reporters include Daniel Mann, Bill Hubard, Anna Martin (all based at CNBC Europe headquarters), Géraldine Amiel (Paris), Raymond Frenken (Brussels), Dan Scott (Zurich), Ellen Frauenknecht and Roland Klaus (Frankfurt). The network also provides live coverage on the Italian markets from reporters of its sister network Class CNBC.
During the business day, the CNBC Europe Ticker is displayed during both programmes and commercials, providing information on share prices from the leading European stock exchages. (This means that commercials on CNBC Europe are formatted differently to on most television channels, taking up only part of the screen). A stack (or bug) providing index and commodity prices was displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen until December 2005, when it was replaced with a strip across the top of the screen (in line with the other CNBC channels). The ticker was decreased in size at the same time.
Previous business day programmes on CNBC Europe included European Market Watch, European Market Wrap, Business Centre Europe, Morning Exchange and European Money Wheel. Previous presenters included Nigel Roberts and Emma Crosby.
As the fastest growing Pan European TV channel according to an EMS 2005 survey, the broadcaster reaches 215 million households worldwide.
Rebroadcasts of CNBC and CNBC Asia
In addition to its own programming, CNBC Europe also broadcasts live much of the business day programming of the United States CNBC channel. The programmes Squawk on the Street and Closing Bell are broadcast in their entirety, as well as the final two hours of Squawk Box, the first hour of Morning Call, second hour of Power Lunch, and depending on the schedule, part of Street Signs. Wake-up Call was not normally broadcast (except on European bank holidays, and on the week in between the beginning of Summer Time in Europe and in the United States). Kudlow & Company is not now broadcast, and Mad Money has never been broadcast on CNBC Europe. While the US markets are open, the CNBC Europe Ticker is modified to carry US share prices. A break filler, consisting of HotBoards (CNBC's custom stock price graphs) is often broadcast during US programming, owing to the increased number of advertising breaks. In addition, during the evening, "Europe Update" is broadcast during some US ad breaks, during which Simon Hobbs (or Daniel Mann) presents a short run down of the European closing prices.
CNBC Asia programming is traditionally broadcast overnight. However CNBC Europe has in recent years preferred to broadcast teleshopping in place of CNBC Asia, to the point when Asia Squawk Box is no longer broadcast most nights (except on Sunday), and not all of Asia Market Watch is shown. Other CNBC Asia business day programmes are not normally shown by CNBC Europe, except very occasionally on bank holidays. At weekends, Asia Market Week is shown. During CNBC Asia programmes, the CNBC Asia ticker is broadcast.
Other programmes
Weekly programmes include "World Business", "Africa Report", "Business Russia", "Capital Ideas", "Adapting to Change" and "e-life" as well as NBC talk shows "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night". At the weekends, CNBC Europe broadcasts sports programming such as golf and tennis under the heading of CNBC Sports, and the previously mentioned talk shows. CNBC Europe also airs special programmes dedicated to the world of financial news and politics such as "Questions for the Future", "Media Talk" and "Global Players with Sabine Christiansen".
The channel occasionally carries the 24 hour MSNBC news channel overnight and more often during significant events, and on US or European bank holidays. On European bank holidays, extra US and Asian programming may be broadcast.
Europe This Week
With Simon Hobbs, "Europe This Week" looks back at seven days of action in Europe's financial arena and discusses the agenda for the coming week. Expert analysis from Europe's top financial commentators and corporate news from the CEOs themselves are a signature of the program.
Other channels operated by CNBC Europe
Generally CNBC Europe has not followed CNBC Asia's lead of broadcasting localised versions of its channels, preferring to concentrate on its pan-European feed. However there are a few exceptions.
There is a feed of CNBC Europe for Scandinavian countries called CNBC Nordic. It shows identical programmes to CNBC Europe but has a ticker focussing on Scandinavian stock exchanges.
CNBC Europe also operates the following local channels:
- CNBC-e, the Turkish version of CNBC. This is unique in the CNBC family, in that after business day hours, it broadcasts popular general entertainment programmes and films.
- Class CNBC (formerly CFN-CNBC), the Italian version of the network, operated in conjunction with Class Editori and Mediaset.
- CNBC Arabiya, the Arabic version of the channel.
History
CNBC Europe began broadcasts in March 1996, as a wholly owned subsidiary of NBC. On 9 December 1997, the channel announced that it would be merging with Dow Jones' news channel in Europe, European Business News. The merger took place in February 1998, upon which the channel then became known officially as "CNBC Europe - A Service of NBC and Dow Jones".
CNBC Europe has leaned generally on the US CNBC on-air graphical look in the past. However in May 2003, it revamped a number of its programmes (upon the departure of Emma Crosby), taking many of them away from the US formats. CNBC Europe re-launched its on-air image in September 2004, but instead of adapting the US title sequences for programmes, designed all of its title sequences itself from scratch (while still using the US music adopted in September 2003).
In July 2005, NBC Universal announced that it would be acquiring the Dow Jones stake in CNBC Europe, subject to required regulatory clearances. On 30 December 2005, CNBC Europe became a wholly owned subsidiary of NBC. Dow Jones continues to provide content to the channel. On 1 January 2006, in line with this, the channel's official name reverted to simply "CNBC Europe", dropping the "A Service of NBC Universal and Dow Jones" tagline.